Celebration – Friday 3rd April 2020

Take a look at this week’s fantastic home learning! We are loving seeing everyone’s

fantastic efforts.

Willow Class

Acer Class

This week Willow class have been busy with a mix

of activities linked to autism awareness week and

our transport topic. They have written acrostic

poems, designed calm areas for our classroom

and tried Cosmic Kids Minecraft yoga. Lots of the

boys have been hunting for rainbows or creating

rainbows to be displayed in their homes and at

school. In addition to this they have been getting

creative making playdough cars and cardboard

towers. Josh has been doing some spring maths at

home whilst Dylan had a go at the capacity

challenge I set and was able to correctly order his

containers based on how much water they held.

Well done Josh and Dylan. On Wednesday four of

the class joined myself and Mrs Murray for a Zoom

call which was great fun and gave us the

opportunity to meet all of their pets. A fun week

has been had by all! Have a great Easter Holiday

Willow.

Another busy week for Acer class this week – we have been

busy finding out more about our topic ‘Apollo 11 - The Moon

Landings’, playing co-operative games with our families,

completing acts of kindness to put a smile on other people’s

faces and…….today (Thursday 2nd April), we took part in a

class Bake off.

Finley made a Rainbow of Hope and has been busy writing an

Autism poem. Reuben is calling his Grandparents to keep in

touch…he also made them flowers to send in the post….he

even made a Trifle whilst feeling poorly - what a busy week!!!

Harvey has been planting seeds, playing games, taking the

dog for long walks, singing karaoke and being pampered by

his Mummy – lucky boy

William has been busy decorating eggs and making yummy

cakes

Luca has been practising his spellings and having fun playing

Family game

Ben has been busy painting Space pictures and creating

Rainbows of Hope with his younger brother

Palm and Juniper Class

Squirrel Class

Everyone in Palm and Juniper class has been very busy

this week!

Joshua has been creating Planets with the

help of his Toucan craft box. Well done

Joshua, what lovely colours.

Tyler has been very busy completing all of his

maths and English and was very pleased to win 2

STAR award certificates. Great work Tyler!

Alex has created his very own marble run and

beautiful rainbow in support of our NHS. What

super creativity Alex.

Rory has recited the most wonderful poem about

a dragon and recorded a video to share with us.

We were all very impressed with Rory’s lovely

expression and fantastic recall. Well done Rory!

All of the adults that work with our students in Palm

and Juniper are very proud of how well they are

adapting to changes. While this is not an easy

time, they are working really hard and trying their

best.

Caiden has been busy bug hunting and

searching the house to complete the

alphabet challenge! Caiden has also

helped dad bake a yummy cake and has

been enjoying building various Lego sets.

Pheonyx has been a chef in the

kitchen again, this time making garlic

bread. He has also been practising his

letter formation

Leon has completed all of the learning

challenges. Take a look at his Lego car,

Easter chick and super writing!

Ashton has joined in with the rainbow

challenge and has been working

extremely hard completing other

challenges too. He also enjoyed Mrs

Tugwell sharing her book about

dinosaurs with him.

Jacob has been doing some great

phonics learning, reading and writing

some super Spring sentences.

Keep up the good work!

Larch Class

Acorns Class

This week, Larch class have been

celebrating Autism awareness week.

Pupils have been creating beautiful

and bright puzzle pieces, the symbol of

Autism Awareness.

They have also been writing some

fantastic acrostic poems!

Thursday’s for Larch class are LOTC

days! They’ve been learning about

burns and scalds with a work sheet

from Mr Hurles and then making bug

hotels and bird houses! So lovely

boys…Well done.

Acorns challenge this week was to create

an Acrostic poems using the word

‘SPRING’ and to go into the garden or look

out of the window to find words that

describe the season of Spring.

Here you can see pictures of

Donovan’s poem, with extra words that

he likes, Connors Spring poem, and

Harry’s own version using the word

Fortnite.

This week Edward has worked hard on

his colour by number rainbow, and has

also been doing painting!

Connor has been doing some baking, and

Dylan had a Lion that came to tea!

Harry has been doing PE with Joe Wicks

and Rhylei made a beautiful rainbow!

Pine Class

Hazel Class

Pine class have been very busy this week. Mason

has been busy reading our class story and

producing lots of maths division work. Excellent

stuff, Mason! Tom B has also been busy with his

division work but also has decided that he wants to

learn to tell the time while he is off. Good effort,

Tom. Sophie has been out almost every day with

her Grannie and took a lovely picture of a swan

guarding its nest. She has also been doing some

fantastic colouring in. Jacob has produced a

rainbow picture with an important message.

Jacob also took part in the Lego challenge and

made a ride-on lawnmower, a vehicle that Jacob

can occasionally be seen riding in school. Jake has

completed a massive amount of work while he has

been at home and has also found time to do his

own ironing.

Jacob has written a thrilling original story on his

new laptop that he got for his birthday. Happy

birthday, Jacob, and well done! Ben has

recapped our work on multiplication using arrays

and repeated addition. He has also written an

exciting news story about an earthquake. Excellent

work, Ben!

Another FANTASTIC week from Hazel class.

They have been very busy. Some children

have been baking and cooking at home

creating delicious dishes.

In Maths they have been focusing on their

division using whatever they could find at

home. It was lovely seeing Owen use his

games to start his Maths. Samuel has also

been busy doing his odd and even

numbers.

In English we have been looking at Autism

awareness week, creating acrostic poems.

The children of Hazel class have also been

helping out at home by hovering and

helping with a drill outside!

LOTC Pathway

Beech South Class

In LOTC this week we have been working on getting our

other platforms up and running, developing content to

upload to them.

On Wednesday Mr Bell had a live stream lesson with Ben

and Tyler, the lesson was on map symbols which they’ve

been learning as part of their DofE. They both engaged in

it really well so we are going to do another one this week.

Ben’s mum said “the chat meant everything to Ben

today…. The structure we are trying to have is not

stopping him wanting to be at school, todays contact

with you guys turned it around and he is settled again. We

didn’t realise how much that was needed.”

LOtC are also setting up an Easter sunflower project for

KS4 pupils to try at home, hopefully we get some good

results!

As part of Tyler’s DofE volunteering section he has filled 2

very LARGE bags of rubbish from around school site.

Amazing work Tyler, Thank you!

James has been working out with the help of Mr Joe Wicks

and learning new skills with his dad. Well done James

keep working hard!

Jonnie has been making some delicious deserts that are

making Mr Hurles and Mrs Berrett very envious! Jonnie is

writing a cookery book as part of his Duke of Edinburgh

Award and life skills. Scrumptious work Jonnie keep it up

It has been a busy week in Beech class.

There has been lots of cooking and arts

and crafts. We have been continuing to

work on our Space topic with some

reading and artwork.

Finn has been reading and space

modelling. He has also been trying hard

with some extra sience and a 5 senses

hunt.

Molly has done even more arts and crafts –

candle making, modelling and a

wonderful rainbow to make us all smile.

She has also been cooking bread and

cookies! An extra special well done to

Molly for passing her reading level 2

certificate!

Purple mash and PE have been Beech

classes favourite lessons!

Beech have also been learning about

Autism Awareness week.

Maple Class

Hazel South

It’s been a busy week in maple class!

James had a great go at the addition and

subtraction Spring board game!

Joshua made a bird house with

somewhere to store the worms!

Oliver created a rainbow for the

competition at Springfields!

It was Ethan’s birthday and he got this

fantastic new bike! Happy Birthday Ethan!

Chloe has written a great newspaper

report!

Natalis has been finding different types of

clocks in the house – digital and analogue!

Logan has been making some yummy

biscuits!

Alfie has been continuing with his

computer game!

Lots of children in Hazel Class have

been working really hard this week with

their home learning. Many of the

class have continued working on their

space projects, Kaylen produced great

work linked to the phases of the moon

and found a great YouTube clip to use,

Dylan’s detailed PowerPoint which

linked to the different planets was very

interesting and Forrester did some

fantastic writing about Juniper. There

has been lots of online maths learning

taking place and creative activities

such as drawing and model making,

Archie’s creations were really

impressive. Other highlights include

Kian’s amazing rainbow, gardening,

activities linked to the Lego Challenge

and lots of reading.

Catering Pathway

Apple Class

This week, Adam challenged himself to

make cookies, but made a new creation –

Cookie Cupcakes! Yum!

Raife has been hard at work researching

foreign cuisine.

Owen has also been researching, and

wrote this fantastic piece about ‘Food

from Around the World’! He has also been

showing his culinary prowess by making

tandoori chicken kebabs with cumin rice

and peas. Well done Owen!

In Apple Class this week Will enjoyed

some cooking, playing mastermind,

and doing some mental maths

working out how long people lived at

the local cemetery.

Olivia went on a sunny walk, did some

painting around the house and made a

fantastic notice board all about St John’s

Ambulance! Great job Olivia!

Kyle has been hard at work with one of

our former pupils Kayleigh. He also kept

active by spending some time on the

trampoline

Cedar Class

This week Cedar have had lots

of things to celebrate. Jonnie

has been making a cook book,

and so far has added 1 sweet

treat per day! Luckily, he is also

completing the fitness

challenge! Jonnie is ahead of

Mr Cameron in the number of

press ups he can do, but Mr

Cameron is slowly catching him

up!

Both Tobi and Aaron have also

submitted Rainbows of hope. In

true retro style, Aarons is in the

form of a rainbow Gameboy!

The Therapy Blog

This week we have been focusing on being positive and celebrating success!

Cindy, our therapy assistant has been setting the students a ‘Positivity Challenge’! Find

something positive every day to celebrate and share it with someone! Sometimes finding

something positive can be hard! But I am sure we can all find something no matter how

small! One student was super happy because his trampoline is now fixed!

Liz, our Occupational Therapist has been working in school this week and has found lots of

things to be positive about!

Students and staff made a Rainbow of Hope poster in support of the NHS. Students created

the idea and helped to display it outside the school. Students have been sending photos of

their own rainbows to teachers and we have also been sharing them outside school!

Rebecca, our Speech and Language Therapist, is feeling positive about all the hard work

students in Squirrels and Acorns have been doing to complete their rhyming word and

categories challenges! Well done everyone!

Sarah, our school counsellor, has shared how positive she is feeling that students are sharing

their anxieties about the changes and are able to work through them with her using

technology!

Can you think of something positive this week and share it with your teacher?

Have a good week

Sarah, our school counsellor, has shared how positive she is feeling that students are sharing

their anxieties about the changes and are able to work through them with her using

technology!

Can you think of something positive this week and share it with your teacher?

Have a good week